Diverging trends for lower respiratory infections in non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal children

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 451-457

  Moore, Hannah ^a   Burgner, David ^b   Carville, Kylie ^a   Jacoby, Peter ^a   Richmond, Peter ^b   Lehmann, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hospitalisation; Indigenous population; Infant; Respiratory infection; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREND STUDY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34249293363     PISSN: 10344810     EISSN: 14401754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2007.01110.x     Document Type: Article

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